Bed-lounge



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A. KULIGH.

BBD LOUNGE. No. 328,894. Patented 001;. 20, 1885.

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- BED LGUNGE. No. 828,894. Patented ont. 2o, 1888.

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ANTON KULIOH, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BED-LOUNGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,894, dated October 20, 1335- Applieation filed April 4, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANTON KULICH, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed-Lounges, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a front elevation of my improved bed-lounge before upholstering. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same with parts broken away, and Figs. 3 and 4 are vertical transverse sec` tions of the bed-lounge respectively in a position as a lounge and as a bed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre-- spending parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the main frame of my improved bed-lounge, which is provided with a fixed back, B.

To the front part of the .main frame A are attached forward-extending metallic brackets C. A seat section, D, is pivoted to these brackets O by means of metallic straps O, which are firmly secured to the ends of said seat-section by bolts or in any other suitable manner. A second movable seat-section, E, carries metallic straps e2, and said seat-section D has similar straps, e', said straps running back for some distance from the meeting edges of the seat-sections, and being firmly secured thereto by bolts or in any other suitable manner, and the outer or meeting ends of said straps being bifurcated or forked. Pivot-links e e connect said seat-sections, being pivoted in the bifureated ends of said straps.

To the rear part of the frame of the movable section E are hinged short legs E, which are folded closely to the under side of the section E when the sections D and E are folded one over the other in forming a lounge, but which are dropped into vertical position so as to rest upon transverse stays F of the main frame when the seat-section is swungon the supporting-brackets C C in forward position, as shown Fig. 4. The seat-section D is connected with the hinged legs E by stout strings f, which are stretched when the seatscction is folded over the movable section E, as shown in Fig. 8, so as to move up the legs E and fold them away below the section E, which gives sufficient play to the downward swinging of the legs E when the seat-section Serial No. 161,171. (No model.)

D is opened. The outer end of the seat-section D is provided with the customary legs, D', which are pivoted to the frame of the section and adapted to be folded away alongside of the same when the seat-section D is folded over the section E, as shown in Fig. 3, but which drop into vertical position7 so as to support the seat-section when in extended position, as shown in Fig. 4.

\ By pivoting the seat-section D to raised brackets O G, and connecting it by pivotlinks and straps to the inner movable section E, the latter is lifted by the outwardly-swinging motion of the seat-section D, so as to assume a position on a level with the seat-section, and at nearly the same level which the same assumes when folded over the inner section, E. By the inwardly-swinging motion of the seat-section D the section E is lowered 4into the main frame below the seat-section,

which latter is then at a position having the normal height of seat-sections in bed-lounges.

The head of the lounge is made of a fixed section, G, and a hinged section, G, which is swung in outward direction, and supported on the seat-section by a stop-plate, g, as customary in bed-lounges. By this construction the bed-lounge can be changed into a bed having nearly the same height as common beds, whereby the same is more convenient for use, while it can be handled with the same facility as the common bed-lounges in which the seatsection is hinged to the main frame.

I am aware that bed-lounges with one or more movable seat-sections hinged to each other and to .the frame-work of the lounge are old; and also that there is nothing new in the folding legs or means for actuating them herein described; and I do not, therefore, lay any claim to such features, my invention consisting in the specific means of pivoting one seat-section to the frame, and the other seat-section thereto, substantially as described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a bed-lounge, a main frame provided with supporting-brackets at its ends, a movable seat-section, metallic straps secured to the ends thereof and pivoted to said brackets, a second movable seat-section, oppositely- ICO disposed metallic straps secured to both said my invention I havesigned my name in presseat-seetions, the meeting ends thereof being ence of two subscribing Witnesses. bifuroated connecting pivot-links pivoted in said bifurcated ends, and hinged legs for sup- ANTON KULIGH 5 porting the seat-sections, substantially as set Witnesses:

forth. CARL KARP,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as ERNST WoLFF. 

